Combination tack puller and scissors



Sept 8,1925.

l A 1,552,688 J H.HCHTEMAN COMBINATION T ACK FULLER AND SCISSORS i Filed March 12 1924 fly.

Patented Sept. 8, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT roFricE.

JOHN' E. FICHTEMAN, 0F ST. LOUIS, .MISSOURI COMBINATION TACK FULLER SCISSORS.

Application led March 12, 1924. Serial' No. 698,724.v

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This invention relates to a new and improved combination tack-puller and scissors in the forni of a tool or implement designed especially for use in shoe factories but which may also be used to advantage 1n other lines.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a tack-puller having a handle at one end and one of its longitudinal edges being sharpened to form a cuttingedge in eo`- operation with a pivoted cutting blade also having a handle which may be gripped separately or together with the handle of the\ tack-puller. Various other objects and advantagcs of the invention will become apparent from the following description.

In the drawings:

Figure l is a plan View of the invention in its preferred embodiment,

F ig. 2 is a view in side elevation, and

Fig. 3 is a detailed view.

In describing my invention in detail` 10 designates the body portion of the tack-1' puller which is provided at one end with a bifurcatcd tack-engaging claw 1l slightly. curved when viewed in side elevation in Fig. 2, and at its other end with a handle or operating portion l2. One longitudinal edge of body portion 1l) is sharpened to provide a cutting edge indicated at 13 for the purpose that will presently appear.

Cutting blade 1l is pivotally mounted adjacent one end of body portion 10 as at 15 Vand'is provided at its rear end with a handle or operatingT portion 16 that may be gripped and operated independently or together with handle l2. It will be observed upon reference to both Figs. 1 and 2 that cutting blade 14 is shorter than the body portion 10 of the tack-puller, so that when it is brought home in parallel relation to the body portion 10 it will terminate short ot' the tack-engaging claw 11. It will be thus oted that breakage or impairment of the tack-engaging clawfll will not affect the eh'icient operation of the device or implement as a pair of scissors. Moreover, by providing the claw at the end of the blade, the wedge-shaped formation of the scissors blades, as shown in cross-section in Fig. 3, is taken advantage of for loosening the tack, since the blade 14 when moved under the claw-bearing blade 10 will tend to slightly lift the saine. The invention is especially.

adapted for removing the small tacks outI of a toe of a shoe after the same has been side lasted and it is required to'cut outthe box toe that holds the toe of the shoe up toits proper shape. It has heretofore been neeessary for the Workmen to lirst pull the tack out With a tack puller, replace the tack puller with the scissors which are used to push back the leather that comes over the toe, and then to cut the box toe at the proper point. This invention eliminates the additional workl and time required by the handling of two separate tools and enables the workmen to perform these separate opera-- tions with a single tool and substantially in i onerv movement.

l What isvclaimed is: l,

. A device of the character described con1- prising a pair -of elongated members pivotally4 connected together intern'iediate their ends to provide relatively upper and lower blades having corresponding ends provided with operating handles, the said upper inemberhaving its opposite end flattened and notched and disposed angularly with respect to the member to provide a claw-foot in-` clincd to the normal plane of the said member, 'and thev said lower member being wedge-shape `in cross-section for exerting a lifting force adjacent the `claw-foot of the said upper member when moved thereunder and being shorter in length than the said upper member so `that when moved under the same it will-terminate short of the said claw-foot.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

JOHN H. FICHTEMAN. 

